Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo M50's Bass?

That's a weird one.

Your not getting any bass at all? Are the drivers moving? The 50's should put out some good bass. How are they position from the walls?

The pure direct function is to turn everything off except the audio in a pure pass (unmanipulated) from the source. This means if you're watching a DVD, then you would loose the picture and any sound processing would be removed leaving you with 2 channel stereo only.
I've used this feature many times with different sources on my yamaha and never had an issue.

Give it try listening to the radio to see if it works.

I was able to use the tuner in pure direct, in the past I only tested it while watching TV or a DVD. I could also play music cd's in the DVD player but not actual DVD's. I listened to "Dark side of the moon" in "pure direct" mode. WOW...OMG! I've had these speakers for several years and never knew what I was missing out on!!! It's just amazing. I'm shocked at the bass these things produce! I have to figure out what the heck my receiver is set to and FIX IT!

I'm happy because it's like I have all new speakers, and pissed because I've been seriously missing out.

BTW, How far should the speakers be away from the wall? Mine are about a foot.

The 50's set to LARGE
The two rear M3's set at? small or large?
The center rear QS8 set at?
The Center 150 set at?

For movies all speakers should be set to small in the receiver, with a crossover setting that routes the frequencies below the crossover to the sub. Even for music, my 80's are set to small, with either a 60 or 80hz crossover point.

I would set all the speakers to small, 80 crossover and direct the LFE to the subwoofer .

The only time I would set the M50's to large is for 2 channel listening without using a sub.

Are you gettting bass from the M50's now?

I suspect the problem is the room equalization.

Michael, as Randy suggested, all your speakers should be set "Small", and an 80Hz crossover should work well for all of them. I'd also suggest that with 2-channel source material that you apply DPLIIx to allow all your speakers to work and give you surround sound.

When you set the receiver to show no sub you should then be getting pretty good bass from the M50s alone if the woofers are operating.